This is an analysis of the poem Le Barbier De Pékin that begins with:

Hao ! Hao ! c'est le barbier
Qui secoue au vent sa sonnette !...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XXXX bcdX XXXX bXXX XXaX XXXX XXeX eXXX XXXX XdXX aXXX XXXX aXXX cXcX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110100 1111110 11111110 11011100 0110111 110111010 1111111 11101010 11011001 00111111 11001011 110011 11101110 1111000 11101110 1010101100 11111011 101001101 11101101 1011100 1110010 110110110 11111010 100111110 101110 11111 1110001 11100100 0101110 1101111 11111001 10101001 110100 10111110 11111111 110100010 10010111 1110110 11101010 1111011 1101110 111101 0111110 1110111 1010100 1110100 11001100 1111011 11110 11101111 11001110 1111101 11011110 101111 111011 11110001 10111011 110110100 11001011 110111000 11111100 101011000 11111100 111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; de, le are repeated.

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  • summary of Le Barbier De Pékin;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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